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Exhibition History"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; (Circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)

"Important Recent Paintings and Sculpture," Downtown Gallery, N. Y., Oct. 22 - Nov. 9, 1955

"William Zorach," Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 5 - Oct. 10, 1954

"Sculpture: The Tumultuous Quarter - Century," Sculpture Center, N. Y., Mar. 15 - Apr. 18, 1953

"Realism in Paintings and Sculpture," (Fifth Anniversary Exhibition), Des Moines Art Center, June 5 - July 12, 1953

One-person exhibition, Downtown Gallery, N. Y., 1943

"Second Biennial Exhibition, Part I: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints," Whitney Museum of American Art, N. Y., Jan. 14 - Feb. 13, 1936
Published ReferencesDES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, July 19, 1953

William Zorach, ART IS MY LIFE, 1967, pl.40

Warren Wheelock, "William Zorach," ART INSTRUCTION, Vol.3, No.4, Apr. 1, 1939, pp.18-21, ill.

"Who Is This Sculptor Zorach?" DES MOINES REGISTER, June 11, 1956

Roberta Kupfrian Tarbell, CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF WILLIAM ZORACH'S CARVED SCULPTURE, (unpublished doctoral dissertation), University of Delaware, 1976, no.130, ill. p.498

WILLIAM ZORACH, American Artists Group, N. Y., 1945, ill.

Wingert, ZORACH, Models: pencil studies, references, 1938, pl.34

Wingert, ZORACH, 1938, cat. no.69, plate 34

"Sculpture: The Tumultous Quarter - Century," Sculpture Center, N. Y., 1953, exh. cat. no.87, ill.

DMAC Bulletin, Sept. 1959, ill.

DMAC Bulletin, Sept. 1954, ill.

Downtown Gallery, N. Y., 1943, exh. cat. no.14

"William Zorach's Portrait of His Daughter," NEW YORK POST, May 16, 1936, ill.

"Realism In Paintings and Sculpture" Des Moines Art Center, 1953, exh. cat. ill.

"Second Biennial Exhibitions, Part I: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints," Whitney Museum of American Art, N. Y., 1936, exh. cat. no.65

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. p.218

"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, 1983, exh. cat. no.41

"William Zorach," Des Moines Art Center, 1954, cover ill.
DimensionsOverall: 15 × 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (38.1 × 26 × 36.2 cm)
Overall (with base): 19 7/8 × 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (50.5 × 26 × 36.2 cm)
Accession Number 1953.34
Classificationssculpture
Catalogue raisonnéCATALOGUE RAISONNE OF WILLIAM ZORACH'S CARVED SCULPTURE, a doctoral dissertation (unpublished) by Roberta Kupfria Tarbell, University of Delaware, 1976, no. 130, repro. p. 498.
ProvenanceArtist. (Downtown Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1953]

Images (6)

Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Artist's Daughter (Dahlov Ipcar)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Scott Burton
designed 1984, fabricated 1992
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Serra
1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Scott Burton
designed 1985, fabricated 1989-1990
#1 Aerial view of Greenwood Pond: Double Site
Photographed by: Farshid Assassi (October 1996)
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Mary Miss
1989-1996
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
ca. 1945
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Zorach
1954